The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 9, 1938, Page 2

' hat er, st ee "t.Oasbit, 4a Sere bes itt - theories are the bunk. PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Pubewshed taity Wetept Sunday By THE CUTIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. i: P. ArerMAN, Pri awa Publisher JO ALLEN, Aésintant Business Managet frum ‘Mie Citizen Butlding Corner Greene and Ann Streets Unly Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County vatered at Key West, Plorida, as second class matter Member of the Axsoemted Press (Re Associated Press ig exclusively entitled to u . fur republichtion of all news dispatches credited 1g ttjor) notyar ise ‘credited im this paper and the local news published here. Mgimer-onianel | Hi] MEMBER * Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Mase known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE AM reading nottves, cards of thanks, resorutions of | Fexpyect, obituary notices, ete. wil be charged for at the rate of TO cents & lite. Notices for entertainments by ¢hutehes from ‘which & fevenue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discwa- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it Will not publish anonymous communs- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST Apvécatib BY THe <rrizeN WA YAR rater swetage ss City Pian (Zoning). . Hotels and Apartmetits. Bathing Pavilion. . Airports—Land and Sea, . Consolidation of County and City Governments. A good card player is never too lazy to cut the cards. * Some society folks move in exclusive circles, others in triangles. A politician never acknowledges an error; it isn’t good polities. Few people ever decide voluntarily to give up a job that pays off regularly. © Even bill collectors have a certain pop- ularity, usually being asked to call again. Everybody is willing to help the other fellow if he has the money to pay for it. Several scientists now say Freud’s Like most other theories, If you want to be original, just be natural. You cannot be original if you are a copy-cat. ‘e The best salesman isn’t necessarily the one who can memorize the longest Monologue. According to an economist, money is the people’s servant. Here teday and gone tomorrow. ‘east SSomnenotostirs + > Sat Ethiopia isestil? a member o f the League of Natidns; but what good does that do her? iret ‘ 0 pea ae) ‘The trouble with a reformer is that he wants to fet his conscience be other people’s gaide. —ernsanensnsetntdnatttncsnn Sometimes it pays to be direct and again it is best to be evasive; only ex- perience can tell. eecieedicetnann Our sympathy goes out to the fellow who is carrying the troubles of the world upon his conscience. Night driving, according to experts, ‘is more. rous than day driving. Bs ‘pecially, if dene with one hand! PROTEC Af6olvand-his money wouldn't be | parted.so often if there were a law against ‘trying to get something for nothing. You don't have te stand on your head to read this paragraph, but standing on your head will do you just as much good. The only advantage a detour can lay” claim to is that it makes a driver appre- ciate a good road when he gets back on one, If your listener shows signs of inatten- tion just intersperse your remarks with a compliment; that will bring "em back to life, to iso Poor | RESTRICTED SUGAR— RESTRICTED WEALTH We no more need a long array of statistics to aid us in arriving at an opinion | on the policy of restricting our suger-pro- | ducing area, than we would need to sit | down and consider carefully as to whether | we would be richer or poorer if we should destroy half our clothing, shoot half of our livestock or in any other way destroy our | possessions. : Surely, we have not yet forgotten | what we paid in money and what im- | measureably more we paid in mal-nutrition | when war held up commerce and sugar | rotted on the wharves of Cuba, | Tf only for the sake of a “self-con- tained America” we should build up a source of supply of sugar that would for- ever put an end te the necessity of im- porting it from across the water. And, this service to the nation, ft is in | the ‘power of Florida to perform. More than that, in this day of mounting un- employment, capital stands ready to put literally thousands of men to work in the healthiest of occupations, in the finest en- vironment in which an American citizen who would rear his family away from the congested cities, could Hope t6 find. ~~ _ Butjthe mandate Vhas/@oHe ott lovdex- ing the @estruction of opportunity, for labor, ithe destruction of illions*o' ‘dotiars every year in domestie com: re tail trade in Florida, and tntabetch of ‘ seventy-five percent of the money that the housekeepers of the United States will spend to put sugar on their tables, to sup- port the industry that is making an under- fed peonage of the natives of Puerto Rico and the abolition of the subsistence farmer of Hawaii. With the experiments, born of des- [peration, of Manutuska, the Tennessee Valley Authority, of settling farmers on farms fenced with red tape and in homes covered with debts that will never be paid, the sugar industry of the Florida Ever- glades asks for no subsidy from the gov- ernment, no costly bureaucracy to ad- ‘minister it, no violent interference with the laws of supply and demand. < All that the Florida Everglades sugar farmers ask is permission to plant their fields ‘and reap the harvests thereof, to put the heads of fifty thousand families to trade into the stores and the shops of Flor- ida, and above all, to place within the con- fines of our own cost line a supply of sugar that will never be affected by blockade, nor restricted by alien treaty, They are asking for no protection against cheap labor, no subsidy to help overcome competition. The bounty of nature, the combination of soil and climate ‘that exists within the Everglades is such Florida’s sugar producers can pay double the wages paid in Louisiana, far more than is paid in Hawaii, and many times the wages paid in Puerto Rico, and yet, pro- duce sugar at a lower cost than can any of these regions. . Yet, at the expense of the breakfast table $f |America,to' ay ‘Hothing of the | great industries that use sugar by! the tems; FPloridd ig commanded {6 throw (seventy- | five at sugar pro, { ducer awaPddbivsee bat | fulness to the nation in time.of peace,and to jedpard- | ize the health of the nation in time of war. Let us be through with this non- sense. Untie Florida's hands that she may serve her countty. | BUSINESS ACTIVITY | ' Business activity in the United States, according to seme reports, lags behind the | | rest of the world. This, it is said, is shown | | by the fact that during the first nine | months of this year, the consemption of crude rubber, tin and copper in the United | States does not compare in the ratio of | consumption in Europe. | For example, the consumption of | crude rubber in this country was 36.7 per cent below last year, compared with al drop of 9.7 per cent outside the United States. The figures for tin show the United States 40.9 per cent below last year, while consumption elsewhere was about the same. Copper consumption in | this country. averaged about 60 per cent of last year’s figures, while in other areas, new high levels were attained. The chances are that the recerd con- } sumption of these commodities abroad | have been caused by vast armament pro- grams. It is generally admitted that the | preparedness programs in the larger coun- tries of Europe have provided a boost for ; business generally, \® hours. At the beginning of the want this country js in the House. Officials of THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years thent when Mrs. Joseph Strick- | jland gave birth to a Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen ! Operation of the Monroe Coun- ity Ferry System will pass into the hands of Norberg Thompson on Novembr 15, as the result of a contract unanimously approved by the county commissioners at their meeting held last night with |three members present, Bervaldi, Porter and Kirehheiner. Under the terms of the contract Nor- berg Thompson is to take over the ferries and maintenance of the system and keep it going ef- ficiently without any expense to) the county. The net proceeds of the system is to be deposited to the credit of the county in the ‘form of a sinking fund to retire ‘the $200,000 bond issue, which ‘was floated to establish the sys- tem, shall pass to the ownership of Mr. Thompson, according to the terms of the contract. There- after he is to continue operation of the ferries, turning over one- third of the profits to the county as a franchise. The county is to Burton E. Stevenson of cna! cothe, Ohio, author’ and librarian,” Thompson, born there, 66 years ago. tedt u WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1938 Operation Abd.Child | Came Close Togetlier ? | TAYLORVILLE, Ill, Nov. 9.— Local doctors expressed amaze-, TODAY’S. COMMON ERROR Do not ‘say, “He lives in this vicinity”; say. “He lives in the vicinity of our home”, or better, “He lives daughter in our neighborhood”. three days after an appendec- | tomy. They said cases of normal | birth so soon after an operation are extremely rare. Cr E s T Y oO U R oO SRNOWLEDGE Mother and babe were reportéd “doing well”. scovavecoooosnerergss. °° Can Today’s Birthdays e PY peg ta att wy of Maud Howe Elliott of New- port, R. 1, author, daughter of the famed Julia Ward Howe, born in Boston, 84 years ago. Was George Washington a member of the Masonic ‘Order? In which geographical divi- sion of the U. S. is Dela+ ware? The eruption of which vol~ cano destroyed the city of Pompeii in 79 A. D.? Who won the 1938 English public courses golf title? | Name the state flower of Wisconsin. ; From .which.country did the ‘ ! U. S. obtain the land ini Charles Donnelly, president of ated: Se. Con. Lovislenal the Northern Pacific R. R., born) Purchase? i ot eet eneidn, Wiss ae “on which finger should class rings be worn? = Who was Charles © Francois Gounod? 10. What is the birthstone for ~ February? i Dr. Florence R. Sabin, medical scientist, members emeritus of the Rockfeller Inst. for Medical Research, New York, born in Central City, Col., 67 years ago. Mae Marsh, screen star, born! in Madrid, N. M., 41 years ago. Dr. Leonard Carmichael, new president of Tufts College, Mass., born in Phila., 40 years ago. Ed Wynn, comedian, born ‘in '*°AN bids for the construction of Philadelphia, 49 years ago. « | aboat for tha Monroe County Fer- fy System were refused at the |meeting of the commissioners tion engineer, (fast night, and were declared re- | fected at a meeting held in the aM _, o. WA. sRUINGTON By HUGO 5S. SIMS, Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen WAGE-HOUR LAW GRADUAL APPROACH THE NEW CONGRESS PREDICTIONS SCARCE BARUCH ON DEFENSE WANTS U. S. PREPARED | Porter moved that all bids be re- fected and checks be returned jclaims. Disinterested, or, at least and that a naval architect be re- ito the opinion that the Republi-|to Mr. Thompson and the board. jean gain will not be as pro-|Mr. Gibbs, who is head of the |nounced as predicted earlier in| company which built the former \the year. However, the probabil- ferries, stated his company lost ‘ity is that they are just guessing $10,000 when the ferries were |and that it will take the returns built. The county certainly got |to definitely indicate what the!a bargain in boats. | voters have done. The Wages and Hours Law,! | Editorial cornment: When the which went into effect Monday,! No one knows just how far the seventy-first congress convenes it October 24, will be slowly applied | United States has proceeded along | will have among its body three to regulate the nation’s industrial | the lines of preparedness for war. new women members, elected structure. Elmer F. Andrews,-ad-|That nationa\ defense plans have during the ballotnig Tuesday. ministrator, has chosen the*tex-| been“ spurred greatly by the They are Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc- tile industry for fitst attention. events in Eufope is admitted. De-| Cormick, Mrs. Ruth Pratt and Hampered by a small appropria-|claring the Munich Peace Agree- Mrs, Ruth Bryan Owen. What- about 1,000 persons, all but the|paredness” in England and /be, it certainly will not be ruth- topmost under Civil Sefvice, to France, a friend and adviser of less. administer the complex law. It is the President, and chairman of estimated that less than ‘three|the war-time War Industries ‘ percent of wage-earners in manu-|Board, urges that the United ‘ee yin oe geo facturing industries will be af-|States should gear up its indus- |“ veicnd Niles led the entire fected by the initial wage . pro-|try for war production, that the ticket although he had opposition vision of the Act. However, in the} Army and Navy be streigthened His o mt tecetved 489 ne cotton goods industry, it is believ-| greatly and that a special tax be — a ed that ‘the workers, particularly | levied to provide the funds. in the South, will obtain inereas-| Nee wage by virtue of the new aw. A victory parade was staged The significance of Mr. Baruch’s last night which traveled to dif- statement is to be found in the Behe geethin adn ie | fact, that for, many, veers he as 'Eagle Drum Corps and visited the When the law went into effect, | been an advocate of various plans h ¢ winhivi didates, in a broad way, it beeame illegal|to promote peace for the United homes of winning candidates. for an employer engaged in inter- | States. He believes that America state commerce, to pay his wage is unprepared, with a good Navy _V. Higgs, who was injured yes- workers less than twenty-five as a first line of defense, but with terday by a falling pole, is re- cents an hour, or to employ them an Army “not first-class”. He to be resting easy today. more than forty-four hours a wants sufficient arms and equip- The leg which was supposed to week, During the second year of Ment to put an Army of 400,000 be broken, was found to be badly the law’s operation, the basis will oe : the Pat ‘eine be thirty cents an hour and for- Condition. He says loes ni TA 4 to-find-itself in nemiA iss a Ros eighth year, it will be forty cents the ‘humiliating’! pdsttfongiqal lLbns ta, tab Geet an hour and forty a week’ France and Great Setéin. \their home-in Aronovitz Larie. unless the, law is changéd in thé . "i meantime. It is also illeggl to ship” Knowing that one ofthe prob-| cate, wugtiamnmeyes Piggy in interstate commerce amy gooll§ Tems of warfate is the prodic- | sion made in an establishment employ- "tion of material, and with his ex- | + WR Rondedt of the P. ana ing children under sixteen years perience in the World War to), "S c' Qo "SvitT teave Saturd of age. These are the general pro-| guide him, Mr. Baruch says the |" 1° Ptewlieir Oita her re visions but the law has a number | United States ought to be ready |” > o > 4 ter: need of exceptions. These, it is impos-'for quantity production of pow- ire ba ous. aria thd es sible to point out in the space at'der, supplies, munitions, arma- |? Reppert bn gaogy our disposal. jments and modern equipment. He | for adding to the facilities of the loes not want the United States Company, the Steamship North- When the new Congress assem-' to go to the aid of European bles in January, there will be at democracies but to be in a posi- least eight new faces in. the Sen-/ tion “to mind its own business | ate and not less than forty-nine Without any interference from new members of the House. This. #>roa will result from the decisions of | some legislators to retire to priv- ate life, the death of others, and ‘the winter season. Miss Miriam Baker, daughter of Mrs. Bertha Baker, of Grinnell stteet, and Charles Albury, who VUevovevessescosssevsees “ = a ae, the P. and O. at others, and "Today's Horoscope | row evening 7:20 in the First Con. e results of the nominating pri- gregational church maries. The election next month! ***¢*** asi : is certain to make other changes’ Today bestows a constant and! gunseribe to The Citizen—20c in the personnel of Congress. : Steady mind, bearing a lofty pur-/ weekly. pose and ever eager to befriend | The Senate is certain to be. the distressed in mind or body. Democratic, no matter what hap- This will attract many friends pens, because 48 Dem: ts’ did’ Who will aid in the good work not face the electorate tMis-Year. 29d Carry the native to a high Seven ethers are from Seuth ‘Place with success following nat- whete nomination is . ;urally. It is a strong day. to election. Among the missing —_—_—— will be McAdoo of California, ONLY BOYS THERE NOW Pope of Idaho, Hitchcock of South 75 a er aay | Dakota and Berry of Tennessee,| FORT SCOTT, Kans —Quite by ail of whom wete defeated for Chance the Porterville rural fenomination. Dietrich of Hilinois, School changed this year from a Milton of New Jersey, and Reames £279 school All twelve students of Oregon did not seck renom- bo og rol students ination and Copeland of New oe York has been claimed by death. ! nonin vemeaenit As whe date of the ciection} LA CONCHA HOTEL ®fows nearer, there is no defin-' In Se Center of the Business fte indication of the number of end Theater District Seats that the Republicans will Doth partion weite the keuabl Open The Year Around i lobservers attempting to be im-|tained to draw up plans for the |Chatham, Cana., 67 years ago. | partial, are how veering a little boat which will prove acceptable ——— a work, to put millions of dollars worth of tion, he will recruit a_ staff of|ment the result of “tragic unpre- ever else the new congress will) Edward P. Warner, former aviation | editor and assistant secretary of the navy for aeronautics, born in | jeourt house this morning. Mr. Pittsburgh, 44 years ago. James D. 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